Thursday, October 29, 2009

I have added a new feature to TextEdit, although it is still not out yet: Error reports. This feature catches all of the exceptions (except the ironic exceptions that occur while reporting an exception), reports them, and saves them to a file called errors.html. Don’t worry; I have finished this. I am working on the other features now. TextEdit shall be released on October 1st!

Friday, October 16, 2009

You probably noticed that TextEdit 3.0 is not out yet, though it was said to be released soon. My bad. There are more bugs that I thought. Despite this, I will make one promise. TextEdit 3.0 will be out on November 1, 2009. I will release it even if you have to use a microscope to read the text. Now you have a promise.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

If you have been wondering about TextEdit 3.0, it is well on the way to being released. Although I know it will be much improved in the next version, it will be enough to edit files conveniently. Now that more progress has been made on it, here are its features:

Not started yet

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Completed

The ability to load multiple files and switch between them without changing windows

Convenient editing functions such as to find text, replace, and skip to line numbers

Custom encoding for loading files, and a progress bar to inform of the program’s status

Bookmarks are enabled—Mark your important places.

A spelling check with code detection (automatically knowing when to check and turn off) is included, although its words are very limited. If you have added a great deal of words and would like to inform me so that I can publicise your vocabulary, post a link as a comment to this post (after TextEdit 3.0 is released).

While TextEdit 3.0, the one currently being developed, is not out yet, TextEdit 2.0 is. TextEdit 2.0 is the previous version, useful for editing. It contains many bugs, and some of its features do not work. However, it can still be used for basic editing. TextEdit 3.0 will be out soon.

Installation

Unfortunately, TextEdit cannot be run without installation, but this feature will be available in TextEdit 2.0. To install Textedit, download it here. Once the zipped folder is downloaded, it is possible to open it and open the TextEdit.jar file. However, it may be more useful to create a shortcut first. To do so,

To use this button, use this code:<div onselectstart="return false;" style="color:black" class="bronze">Bronze Button</div>

The advantage of this vs. the <button> and <input type="button"> is that this method is very VERY customizable. For example, this method could create a button with text, video, and images all at the same time. With this method, any type of content could fit inside. Also, the colors are customizable.

Hello, I am John. This is my new picture.This button has 50% opacity.

I have tested this, and it works in Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

I will be making a byte editing program called ByteWreader. This program will help for editing binary files which could not be edited with plain text. The program itself will be released about the same time as TextEdit, a text editor which is also coming out soon. Its features and details will be released later.